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Come Together ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Converge

This week’s challenge is to explore how lines and shapes can converge in interesting ways. In these photos, taken on a recent visit to Orcas Island, the lines in nature brought my focus to a point in the distance and … Continue reading

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Downward Climb ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Descent

Into The Palouse June 20, 2014 landing in a Horizon airplane at Pullman-Moscow Airport.

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On The Edge ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Endurance

In Honor of The Great March For Climate Action September 21, 2014 salty sea licks at roots in sand and clay tree spirit clings on the edge life endures  

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Cheers! ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Summer Love

The daughter of dear friends was married Saturday. Everything was lovely — just the way one pictures a summer wedding in a beautiful outdoor setting. Although I snapped more romantic photos than this one, I love how the colors,  light … Continue reading

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Dark and Light ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Contrast

Dark would be blank without light; light would be empty but for the contrast of dark.  

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High Cascades ~ Wide Open Spaces in Black and White ~ Sunday Stills

In the mid to late 1960’s my father, mother, brother, and family friends took our horses to the high Cascade Mountains in Washington, to hunt deer. Someone in the party snapped this photograph, looking down across a valley. The horses … Continue reading

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Two Suns ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Extra-Extra

After a storm, an illusion of two suns slide behind Waldron and Saturna Islands. Photo taken from Beach Haven ~ Orcas Island, WA ~ USA.

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Vining ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Twist Again

How plants climb and entwine to gain a spot in the sun is fascinating. Here are a few from my gardens, twisting their way skyward.

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Bridge ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ On The Move

On a recent trip home from Long Beach, WA, the weather cleared enough for me to take a series of shots of the Astoria-Megler Bridge.  Located fourteen miles (23 K) from the mouth of the Columbia River, it is the … Continue reading

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Greatness and Sacrifice ~ Weekly Photo Challenge ~ Monument

It was 1960, I was eleven years old and had traversed 3,000 miles across the USA with my family in a station wagon hauling a travel trailer.  We started in the middle of Washington state, and landed in Boston.  During … Continue reading

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